Public Health
- Statistics May Save Your Life
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After the outbreak in China of the COVID-19 virus, Italy has fallen in the middle of the most acute sanitary emergency we ever experienced in a long while. And what's worse, other countries are sadly joining it. As I write this piece, over 15,000 Ital ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2020 - 10:40am
- Defensive Medicine: In Military Versus Civilian C-Sections, Lawyer Claims About Doctors Get Debunked
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With coronavirus all over media and politicians looking for ways to leverage concern into votes for their political party this November, a number of parents will want to take their children to a doctor at the first sign of a cough "just to be sure&quo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 16 2020 - 12:09pm
- Experts Condemn UK's Response To COVID-19- We Must Reverse This Now- Detect Mild Cases & Contain Swiftly To Save Lives
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Please share this widely, to put pressure on UK to go back to the contain phase for COVIDー19, and potentially save thousands of lives: Many in the UK have been scared and appalled by Boris Johnson’s statement tha t “many more families are going to lose lo ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 16 2020 - 6:32pm
- WHO Safe Hands Challenge- 11 Steps Wash For Thorough Protection From COVID19
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Here is Dr Tedros demonstrating how to wash your hands for COVID-19 protection in the "Safe Hands" challenge (click to watch on Youtube) He is challenging others to do the same and upload videos of themselves doing it. ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 16 2020 - 11:13pm
- FDA Finalizes Rule On 11 New Cigarette Package Warnings
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Smoking is in decline to such an extent that there is no longer fear about creating Prohibition-style casual criminals with totalitarian rules or outright bans, so the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is doing the next best thing; mandating graphic warnin ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 17 2020 - 11:14am
- A Vegetarian Diet Is Only Beneficial If You Also Avoid Vegetarian Junk Food
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A vegetarian diet is promoted as beneficial to heart health and even the environment in more advocacy-based studies, but as its popularity has grown images of thin beautiful people are being supplanted by reality of just as many obese people as in a conve ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2020 - 9:15am
- UK Must CONTAIN Covid19 Right Now- We Can Stop It- Each Ten Days Delay Can Increase Cases Tenfold 1,000 To 10,000 Then 100,000
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I often get asked- “How long is this COVID19 pandemic going to last?”. The answer, according to the WHO, is that it is up to us. We can stop this. The only question is whether we will. Most countries in the world are acting vigorously to stop it with rigo ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 18 2020 - 10:03am
- WHO (Mar 16): Test Test Test & ISOLATE All Cases Of COVID19, However Mild, Until 14 Days After Patients Recover
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Summary (of WHO press briefing on 16th March): We must test every suspected case for COVID-19. We must immediately isolate all cases, even the mild ones. Isolation needs to continue through to 14 days after the symptoms cease to make sure the patients are ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 18 2020 - 12:49pm
- WHO COVID19 Mar 20- Message Of Courage And Hope In Difficult Times- First Pandemic In History With Power To Change Way It Goes
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The director general gave a really good speech on Friday, and I am sharing it here, to help people have more courage in what are going to be difficult times. Up until March 20th, the WHO said this is the first pandemic we can stop. Now the WHO say that Wu ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 21 2020 - 10:30pm
- WHO Recommendations On COVID-19 Not Followed By UK- Need To Get Back On Track Swiftly To Save Lives- Paradigm Shift Inertia?
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Everyone in the UK- please share this widely, this and other posts that explain what is happening in the UK. We are no longer trying to contain COVID-19 in the UK, only to slow down its spread. Also, we no longer try to keep track of who in our society ha ...
Article - Robert Walker - Mar 21 2020 - 10:48pm